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1. † aˈssot, v. View full entry c1175
...intr. To become or act like a fool; to become infatuated, foolishly fond, madly in love....
2. baleen, n. View full entry c1185
...A whale. Obs....
3. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
4. bar, n.1 View full entry c1175
...gen. A straight piece of wood, metal, or other rigid material, long in proportion to its thickness....
5. barley, n. View full entry 1124
...A hardy awned cereal (genus Hordeum), cultivated in all parts of the world; used partly as food, and largely (in Britain and the United States, mainly) in the preparation of...
6. baron, n. View full entry a1200
...Hist. Originally, one who held, by military or other honourable service, from the king or other superior; afterwards restricted to the former or king's barons, and at length mostly...
7. † beˈget, n. View full entry c1175
...The action of acquiring; acquisition, gaining; acquisition, gain, profit, advantage....
8. biting, n. View full entry c1175
...The action of bite in its various senses....
9. blae, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1200
...Of a dark colour between black and blue; blackish blue; of the colour of the blae-berry (Vaccinium myrtillus); livid; also, of a lighter shade, bluish grey, lead-coloured. (Sometimes...
10. blessed | blest, adj. View full entry c1175
...Consecrated, hallowed, holy; consecrated by a religious rite or ceremony....
11. ˈblowing, adj.1 View full entry c1175
...That blows (see the vb.); esp. windy. blowing adder,blowing snake...
12. both, adj., conj., and adv. View full entry 1154
...absol. From 14th c. sometimes the both (obs.). In early modern English sometimes inflected as a n., with genitive both's....
13. † budde, n. View full entry a1200
...An insect; ? a beetle of some kind: cf. boud, weevil....
14. buxom, adj. View full entry c1175
...Morally....
15. buxomness, n. View full entry c1175
...Obedience, submissiveness; lowliness, humility. Obs....
16. cardinal, n. View full entry 1125
...One of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests, and fourteen cardinal deacons) who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college, and to whom the right of electing...
17. chequer | checker, n.1 View full entry 1178
...A chess-board; a square board divided into 64 small squares, coloured alternately dark and light. Obs....
18. Chiltern, n. View full entry a1125
...Proper name of a range of hills, in some parts wooded, which extend from the south of Oxfordshire, near Wallingford, quite across Buckinghamshire into Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire....
19. Christmas, n. View full entry a1123
...The festival of the nativity of Christ, kept on the 25th of December. Usually extended more or less vaguely to the season immediately preceding and following this day, commonly observed as a...
20. churchyard, n. View full entry ?a1160
...The enclosed piece of consecrated ground in which a church stands, formerly almost universally used as a burial ground for the parish or district, and occasionally still used for Christian burials or...
